Personals

PERSONALS William Clark (English, USAF Academy) has received a grant from the U.S. Office of Education to support research in methods of teaching composition. Ingeborg Carlson (German, Arizona State University) is working on the German Section of the English Language News Bibliography of the Romantic Movement. She is also on the reviewing staff of Germanistik and of the German Quarterly. Richard M. Chadbourne (French, University of Colorado) has been named "Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques" by the French government. The award was made by decree of the French Minister of Education , M. Christian Fouchet, and presented by the former Consul General of France in Denver, Victor Gares, at a meeting of the ColoradoWyoming Chapter of the American Association of Teachers of French. John Elwood (English, Washington State University) is on sabbatical leave for the second semester, 19661967 , to do research in England on 18th-century subjects. R. Brugelmans (University of Calgary ) attended the Annual Meeting of the Deutscher Germanistenverband at the University of Munich in October . Presently, he is a guest at several German universities at the invitation of Dr. E. Lehnartz, President of the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst . President Joseph R. Smiley of the University of Colorado has been attending the 14th session of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in Paris as one of five representatives of the United States. He is also a member of the President's Commission of White House Fellows and past member of the U.S. Advisory Commission on International Educational and Cultural Affairs. Thomas E. Cheney (English, Brigham Young University) has been elected to the Board of Directors of the National Folk Festival Association . The Association has just received, the award of a $39,500 matching grant from the National Council on the Arts and will open an office in Washington , D. C. Anoop Chandra Chandola (Hindi, University of Arizona) will present a paper, 'Teripheral Linguistic Systems : A Case from Hindi and Garhwali ," at the 10th International Congress of Linguists, to be held in Bucharest, Romania, August 28 to September 2, 1967. Harold Moore is the new director for the University of Utah Writers' Conference. Brewster Ghiselin, founder and former director of the Conference , resigned in order to give more time to his writing. Michael J. Mendelsohn (English, USAF Academy) is on sabbatical, serving an Internship in Academic Administration at MIT, sponsored by the American Council on Education. Officers of the newly-organized Arizona Chapter of the American Association of Teachers of German are President: Royal L. Tinsley, Jr. (University of Arizona) and SecretaryTreasurer : Justin Capin (Phoenix). Omer C. Stewart (Anthropology) was recently selected as director of the University of Colorado Study Abroad Program at Bordeaux for the year 1967-1968; Jacques Barchilón (French) is the current director. Rev. John Teeling (English, Regis College) is on leave of absence to teach in India with a visiting corps of teachers from the United States sponsored by the State Department. Ingeborg Carlson (German, Arizona State University) will read a paper on modern German drama at the Spring, 1967 meeting of the American College Association. 9 Ruth Slonim (Washington State University) has been conducting a poetry reading once a week during the academic year and has been influential in bringing to the campus visiting poets to read their own works. Thomas O. Mallory (English, New Mexico Highlands University) is chairman of the New Mexico State Committee on High School and College English. Vivian Mercier (English, University of Colorado) is scheduled to talk on "Swift's Humour" at the Swift Tercentenary celebration in Dublin April 25-28. John Wasson (English, Washington State University) is on sabbatical leave for the first semester, 19661967 . He is engaged in research on Renaissance drama at the Huntington Library and British Museum. Kenneth EbIe (English, University of Utah) will be Visiting Professor in American Studies at Carleton College during the spring semester. He will be giving a seminar on the relationship between popular culture and the fine arts and a lecture course on the development of popular culture in the United States. Captain Joseph M. Dougherty (English, USAF Academy) is on combat tour in Vietnam and due to return next year. Donald C. Baker...